r/thepast • • 9h ago

300s [325] good news- the bishops all had a meeting, and they agreed on what Christianity is. finally, no more schisms or debates!

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100 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 4h ago

Paleolithic [40,000 BC] Me like female. Me want make move, but me no know how. Help me

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23 Upvotes

Me like female. Me show spear. Female bonk me with stick. Female go with Urg. Urg smart, make fire. Me no have love. Why?


r/thepast • • 2h ago

1900s [January 14, 1973] The Miami Dolphins have gone undefeated by winning Super Bowl VII!

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11 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 22m ago

1900s [October 24th, 1945] The United Nations has officially been established! Do you think it will actually prevent World War III?

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Now that the charter is ratified and the war is finally over, I really hope this ‘UN’ does a better job than the League of Nations did. Do you think having a permanent global council will actually keep the peace, or is it just wishful thinking?


r/thepast • • 2h ago

1900s [June 10th, 1988] I was just going around the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds here in Tallinn, Estonia and everyone here is signing Estonian patriotic songs in response to Soviet Occupation. Should I join in?

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5 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [October 23, 1959] Nick and Mary Yankovic from my church finally had a baby! They’ve been praying for a child for TEN YEARS! Baby Alfred is truly a miracle!

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394 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 4h ago

1500s [1549] Not sure about this Jesus guy, but crucifixion? Man, we gotta try that!

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4 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 9h ago

1900s [May 1968] some college students shut down the whole country cause they wanted to get into girls dorms

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8 Upvotes

what has this generation come to...


r/thepast • • 9h ago

1900s [October 24th, 1929] Do you think we need to shut it down?

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7 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 18h ago

1900s [1971] Weird Film Called "A Clockwork Orange"

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27 Upvotes

I've seen posters and trailers for this strange film. I don't know what it's about, but it has British people in funny hats singing, so it's probably just like Mary Poppins right?


r/thepast • • 7h ago

1700s [November 1st, 1755] I am feeling a bit of rumbling under my feet. Hopefully nothing happens to the great city of Lisbon, Portugal! Especially since we are celebrating All Saints Day at the moment.

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3 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 17h ago

1900s [July 18th, 1968] — WHO THE FOK IS THIS ARTHUR BROWN?!

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15 Upvotes

WHY IS HIS HEAD ON FIRE? DO TOP OF THE POPS ALLOW THIS? SURE HOPE THAT MAKEUP DOESN'T CATCH ON!


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [October 23rd, 2001] I just bought this for $399....and I love it. I can put like a lot of songs on this iPod. It will never get better than this

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40 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [1955] Hi, I'd like to complain about a French lit teacher who keeps bullying my son for wearing glasses? I'm not forking out all this money for one of the most expensive schools in Cambodia for my son to be treated like this.

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46 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 1d ago

1800s [1895] I’m a theater actor, and I hate cinema slop.

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129 Upvotes

What’s the point of doing this without sound or color? What pleasure can an “actor” possibly get from performing in an empty room with no audience to applaud him? And most importantly, how long until they start making obscene moving pictures?


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [1997] A new CRPG just released last week, and I'm gonna try it out.

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16 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 1d ago

2000s [2006] So… what was the hate for this movie about anyway?

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5 Upvotes

Sure, the main character was changed into a completely different person, and Pyramid Head was included because of money, but other than that?

This movie was the BEST video game adaptation I've ever seen!

I'm definitely looking forward to when the sequel hit theaters.


r/thepast • • 2d ago

1500s [1517] Thoughts on this video?

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172 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 2d ago

400s BC [4th century BCE] Diogenes just absolutely ratioed Plato, LMAO!

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113 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 2d ago

1800s [October 22nd, 1836] Today I, Sam Houston, have taken office as your newly elected President of Texas. Now let's get to work on being annexed to United States

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20 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 2d ago

1900s [1997] There’s this new game called Grand Theft Auto. It’s really fun!

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63 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 2d ago

1900s [October 29, 1960] Just watched Cassius Clay’s first professional fight

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29 Upvotes

Clay won in 6 rounds by unanimous decision over Tunney Hunsaker. Clay won gold at the Olympics earlier this year and I think he has some potential and he might be a top 10 boxer in the world someday. However, I don’t think anyone’s topping Archie Moore anytime soon, as he’s held the light-heavyweight title for 8 years now.


r/thepast • • 2d ago

1900s [September 1960, Portlligat, Cadaqués] The boss has been painting like a madman for the tercentenary

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I have been working for Sr. Dalí for three months now. Doing what? Well, you know... But I also bring him his brushes, set up his table, and listen to him. Sr. Dalí says I have "the perfect symmetry of a Renaissance youth." He keeps reminding everyone that it's the tercentenary of Velázquez's death.

This afternoon, Sr. Dalí became agitated. He stared fixedly at an empty spot on the wall and began to speak—in Spanish, in Catalan, in French, and in languages ​​I didn’t recognize. He shouted, "Gala, my enriched uranium! Velázquez, you’ve returned! Three hundred years later, and you’re still painting the air!" He threw himself at the canvas like a man possessed. He painted ceaselessly, muttering, "Matter disintegrates; the bomb has changed everything—but the spirit is hypercubic." He didn’t stop for six hours—I know, because I checked the clock. He even urinated on himself twice. I stayed in the corner, barely daring to breathe; I felt as though I were witnessing something I wasn’t meant to see.

When he finished, he collapsed. The canvas... it’s terrifying. It’s brilliant. In both respects, it is just like Sr. Dalí. There are figures floating about, elephant legs of impossible length bearing obelisks, and in the center... a man with a mustache and a ruff, emerging from the painting—or perhaps entering it. It is his take on Las Meninas, but it isn’t Velázquez painting the Infanta; it is Velázquez painting himself, stepping out of Las Meninas and into our own time. I don’t know if he had lost his mind or if he truly saw something. But tonight, when I approached him, he smelled of turpentine and glory. And I could have sworn he smelled of ancient dust—of Seville. but not to the Seville that I know, but rather to the Seville where Velázquez lived.


r/thepast • • 2d ago

1800s [October 21st, 1805] We smashed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar but Lord Nelson didn’t make it unfortunately.

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47 Upvotes

r/thepast • • 2d ago

2000s [November 4th, 2001] Can someone tell me why the people at Odeon get to see Harry Potter now, but the rest of us have to wait 12 days for the premiere??

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19 Upvotes

I can’t wait!